__NOTOC__ Columbus Avenue (est.1860) in Boston, Massachusetts, runs from Park Square to just south of

Melnea Cass Boulevard Melnea Cass Boulevard is a street in Boston, Massachusetts, running perpendicular to the line between Dudley Square in Roxbury and the South End. It is named after local community and civil rights activist Melnea Cass. The road's right-of-way ...

, as well as from Tremont Street to Walnut Avenue and Seaver Street, where it continues as Seaver Street to Blue Hill Avenue and to Erie Street, where it ends. It intersects the South End and

Roxbury Roxbury may refer to: Places ;Canada * Roxbury, Nova Scotia * Roxbury, Prince Edward Island ;United States * Roxbury, Connecticut * Roxbury, Kansas * Roxbury, Maine * Roxbury, Boston, a municipality that was later integrated into the city of Bosto ...

neighborhoods.

Buildings & tenants

* African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church * Armory of the First Corps of Cadets *

Doris Bunte Doris Bunte (July 2, 1933 – February 15, 2021) was a Massachusetts state representative and an administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. She was the first African-American woman to hold either position. Biography She was born on July 2, ...

Apartments *

Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe is a restaurant located in Boston's South End that is known for serving African-American jazz musicians during the era of segregated hotels. The walls of the diner are adorned with pictures of customers ranging from Sa ...

* Home for Aged Couples *

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...

* Roxbury Community College *

Youth's Companion Building The Youth's Companion Building is a historic building at 209 Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. The building is also known as the Pledge of Allegiance Building because the Pledge of Allegiance was written and published there. The building ...

;Former buildings & tenants * Allan Crite *

Boston Flower Exchange The Boston Flower Exchange is a wholesale flower market located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as a marketplace that local growers could rent cooperatively to sell their products in a space more suited to their needs than Boston's historic Ha ...

* Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Street * Massachusetts Metaphysical College * Pope Manufacturing Company, 1890s * Savoy Cafe * South End Grounds *

Temple Israel (Boston) Temple Israel is a Reform synagogue in the American city of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1854 as Adath Israel, the congregation is the largest Reform synagogue in Boston and New England. History * 1854: The congregation Temple Israel, o ...

Vega Company The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881. The company began under Swedish-born Julius Nelson, his brother Carl, and a group of associates that included John Pahn and John Sw ...

Waitt & Bond Waitt & Bond, Inc. was an American cigar manufacturer that was in operation from 1870 to 1969. During the early 20th century it was the largest cigar manufacturer in New England and one of the largest in the United States. Early years Waitt & Bo ...

Factory (Later owned by Alles & Fisher, now part of Northeastern University)

Images

File:1883 ColumbusAve Walker map Boston.png, Map of Columbus Ave. and vicinity, 1883 File:Boston and Providence R.R. Station, exterior, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg, Boston and Providence R.R. Station, Park Square, late 19th century File:1902 Boston BeachClarridgeCo byGeorgeWalker.png, Bird's-eye view of Columbus Ave. and vicinity, 1902 File:2350705370 ThirdBase Boston.jpg, McGreevey's Third Base Saloon, no.940 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury Crossing, 1914 (Boston Public Library) Image:2009 ColumbusAve Boston Massachusetts 4074463202.jpg, Columbus Avenue, 2009 File:Walnut Park Apartments, November 2020.jpg, Doris Bunte Apartments, 2020

References

External links

Bostonian Society
has materials related to the street. * Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress). *
Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston
"This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners designed a number of buildings in Boston and New England in the late 19th century." *
Edison-Spencer-Grafton Block, 254-264 Columbus Avenue, Boston
* New York Public Library
Item
related to Columbus Ave., Boston * Boston College. *
Hotel Statler, Columbus Avenue and Arlington Street
photo, 1926 *
Intersection of Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue
photo c. 1933 * City of Boston Archives
Photo
of Columbus Avenue divisional strip project, June 2, 1948
Columbus Avenue looking north east toward Concord Square, Columbus Ave. Anniversary of Battle of Bunker Hill, 1875.
Photo by J.W. Black * MIT
Photo
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